Chapter 25, the Great Mausoleum of Vilun City
Once thought that "calamity" was "the road ahead"?
Pan Long thought about it for a long time, and had some guesses about these two questions:
This Sol Guda teacher's martial arts are simply superb, even in the Kyushu world, he has never seen a person with such high martial arts. Perhaps even those true grandmasters might not be able to defeat him if they used the same power against each other.
In terms of martial arts, he can be regarded as the ultimate in the world - at least, the extreme in this world.
But no matter how high his martial arts are, he is only flesh and blood after all, and the strength of his body is limited after all.
The so-called "manpower is sometimes poor", just like the martial arts masters of another world, no matter how good their kung fu is, they can't beat guns.
The world has not seen muskets and cannons, but Pan Long has seen the Colin family use something similar to matches to make fires.
Matches have already been invented, and it is estimated that musket artillery is not impossible - muskets may be a little difficult, but artillery is certainly fine.
Saul Guda, as well as some masters like him who had reached the extreme of the world, were greatly shocked after witnessing the power of artillery. They find themselves in a power that they have long been proud of, and they are cheap and vulnerable in the face of the progress of the times.
Maybe they can withstand a single shell head-on, but if ten thousand cannons are fired at once, will they be able to stop it?
I can't stop it!
At the same time, they also felt that if artillery has such power, then why can't people have such power?
So they tried to pursue this power beyond the extreme, and then they didn't know if there was a problem with the research, or if someone was secretly doing it, and in short, the "calamity" was born.
At first, Saul and the others thought that perhaps "Calamity" could help them break through their limits and reach new heights that they had never been able to reach in the past. But they found themselves thinking wrong, the "calamity" was just a disaster and did not help them break through.
In other words, the person who broke through with the help of "calamity" is no longer the person he once was.
For these strong men who have practiced martial arts to the extreme in the world, "no longer me" is something they can't accept, so they finally denied this method and painfully admit that the path of martial artists to their point is the limit, and there is no way ahead.
Of course, Pan Long's speculations were not made out of thin air, and the most important evidence is that almost everyone among the people who have changed because of the "calamity" will become stronger.
Even though they've become less human, or simply aren't human at all, at least they're really stronger.
If nothing else, Saul Guda's strength must have surpassed that of his lifetime.
When he first fought on the bridge, he could knock Pan Long away with a single blow with his halberd, and if this power was used on the battlefield, most of the old-fashioned cannons would not be so powerful.
Pan Long slashed out with one sword, even if it was the kind of old-fashioned cannon that couldn't hit the mountain rock, it could be split directly. Thor can knock him back, surely he is better than the old cannons.
From this point of view, they have actually found a way forward.
It's just a pity that this road is obviously very problematic, and Saul himself does not admit that it is a "road".
Pan Long also did not admit it.
If a person needs to become no longer himself, or even a human being, in order to continue to be stronger, then why not just use the power of science and technology?
Being a commander, commanding a group of artillery, and dozens of cannons bombarding together is more reliable than becoming a tentacle monster!
However, Thor's situation is not so much like a tentacle monster, but a bit like an "awakening".
Could it be that ...... power of "awakening" was researched by these people and promoted everywhere?
From this point of view, although he failed, they still found a way forward, and they were finally able to go further.
Although this step is too costly, and although it may gradually lose its meaning as technology advances, at least here and now, they have succeeded.
But...... If they succeeded, why did the "calamity" spread?
Could it be that something went wrong in the middle?
Pan Long felt that it was necessary for him to ask some people from high society to learn more information.
For the "awakening" that Colin used at the beginning, he was still a little envious. Colin is just an ordinary person, and his strength is no different from that of ordinary strong men, but when he "awakens", his strength is even great enough to wrestle with the innate masters of the Kyushu world.
This is really amazing! I'm afraid it's more than ten times or even dozens of times!
Pan Long didn't expect to be able to get this level of improvement, as long as he could improve three or five times, he would be very satisfied.
When Kakarot fought Vegeta back then, he only used the Triple Realm King Fist to beat Vegeta into a Tragedy Tower. He can be improved to five times, which is already more than Kakarot back then, what is there not to be satisfied with?
If he also promoted himself dozens of times, would he not be able to run to the then Maynex vs. Frieza?
Forget it, bully the dwarf, not a hero.
And the side effects of Colin's lifting are really terrible, in just a few seconds, the person almost collapsed, and even consumed his life. Pan Long didn't feel that his lifespan was so long that he could burn it casually, even if he really learned the "Thirty Times Realm King Fist", he would definitely not use it!
There are no Dragon Balls in this world, and there is no way to resurrect if you die!
He sighed as he thought as he poured salt into the coffin. Eventually, the ashes of Thor Guda, along with his armor, were buried with salt.
In order to prevent these salts from being dissolved by groundwater, Pan Long made several layers of design inside the tomb. He dug up the cement, alternated with the rocks, built a waterproof layer, then used dry charcoal to pad a thick layer, then made a waterproof layer, and then placed the coffin in the charcoal pile, and finally put the same two layers of water and charcoal on top.
The whole project took almost half a month, and when the tombstone of the "Tomb of Teacher Saul Guda" was erected, the tomb had become the tallest building in the city of Vilon.
If it weren't for Pan Long's infinite strength, like a humanoid crane, I am afraid that it would have been busy for several years before this tomb could be built.
In return, he removed a lot of the stones used to build the walls of the wealthy areas of the city, as well as all kinds of firewood...... In order to burn charcoal, almost all of them were burned.
Spend the resources of the entire city to build a tomb, and Mr. Thor is really a man with cards, and he has such a face after he dies!
Erecting the tombstone and checking it one last time, Pan Long nodded, burned a bunch of cloth in front of the teacher's tomb to use it as paper money, then lifted the halberd and turned to leave.
He decided to use a halberd for the rest of his journey in this world, on the one hand, to hone his martial arts, and on the other hand, he could also use the identity of a teacher - compared to the "unknown awakened Norman", naturally the identity of "Norman, the disciple of Thor Guda", is more able to convince others.